GarageBand is the easiest way to create a great-sounding song on your Mac. Add realistic, impeccably produced and performed drum grooves to your song with Drummer. Easily shape the sound of any instrument in the Sound Library with Smart Controls. Crank up the bottom end with Bass Amp Designer, or mix and match electric guitar amps, cabinets, and pedals with Amp Designer and Pedalboard. Control GarageBand and play any software instrument wirelessly on your iPad using the Logic Remote app. Haloinfinite, Great for Freei have used it for about a year now and have been very pleased. Granted, I am brand new at this recording and DAW stuff but as a starter it is great!
Two reasons why: it is free and easy to navigate. I picked it up very quickly and to me everything is in a very convinient spot. Now looking at some of these reviews, allot of people are saying that they miss stuff from the old versions, specifically sound loops and the sound library. I can understand someone being frustrated that apple took away some stuff but for me, I wanna sit down and make music out of scratch, so I do not care about the loops at all because I like to compose my own stuff. And plus, the selection of instruments is really good. In addition, there are multiple effects and numerous amounts of musical elements you can add to the recordings of each instrument and each one varies by what they have, showing the difference in each instrument.
How to play music using your Mac's keyboard with GarageBand's Musical Typing. By Malcolm Owen Thursday, August 09, 2018, 07:18 am PT (10:18 am ET) Want to add elements to a GarageBand composition. In this Garageband tutorial I'll reveal some of the very best free Garageband plug-in bundles and where you can get them! As if that wasn’t enough, in the video below I share even more of my favourite plugins that you can download to your Mac for free!
This alone proves that a good amount of time and effort was put into making this (FREE) music DAW. So in reality, to those people that are rating this at 1 or 2 stars, you need to stop complaining about this free music app that you only had to download!!! If you really want something so spectacular, than get logic x or switch to pro tools.
Just stop crapping on garage band when all it did was show up. Raffercm, Arpeggiator?I’ve been using Garageband for 7 years now. Granted, this is a school laptop & I’m not any music pro, but I would say I’ve become pretty advanced with Garageband over the years.
When my school reimages the Macs every school year, all of our purchased apps get automatically updated. When I was prepared to make more advanced music for college (I’m 16), I noticed something pretty off.
#1, THE ARPEGGIATOR IS GONE FOR ANY KIND OF DRUM KIT. This helped me keep tempo with MANY of my projects & now it’s almost impossible to remake them in my own loop. Not to mention, some of the loops are gone too.
Granted, I semi enjoy some of the new sounds like the clap & snapping, but I want my arpeggiator back. I can’t make music without it. I fell in love with this app, & I’d hate to not use it when I constantly have new tunes in my head I could make on here. I’d give this app 5 stars, but it’s now almost useless if you want to be able to produce good, on beat music. Looks like I'm going to have to save $200 to purchase Logic Pro if this doesn’t get fixed. I would really not like to have to do that because I have a lot of faith in Garageband when it comes to producing my music. Come on now Apple, you’re better than this.
Morty the mortified, Garage Band is dead. Why?Everything is gone.
No Bass (I mean NO BASS?!?!?!), no loops, no strings, no woodwinds, no FXI mean, i was just using Garage Band a year ago and it had EVERYthing and it made me feel like a genius in less than ten minutes. Now, everything is gone and it’s HARD to use. All you have is a couple guitars, some drums, and keyboards and a bunch of dead ends in setting up your tracks. I mean, if you want to do ALL the work, you can play your own instruments into a microphone. What are you guys selling instruments now? Well excuse me for not owning a bass and, oh yes, an ENTIRE FREAKING Orchestraso that I can record all the samples that used to be included.Please, just sell all the other stuff you took out as “Pro” or something.
I want these things back. Please bring them back. I want Garage Band back!
Now, I will have to spend a year learning Logic to even come close to having the fun I used to have with Garage Band. What is wrong with you people? What, did the music industry bribe you to hobble the average person’s ability to make music? I literally can think of no other explanation. Just so, so, so, disappointing. Deleting from computer.
Share this story.In addition to launching a new last week, Apple also updated GarageBand and iMovie. IMovie 1.3 merely brought the auto-generated 'trailers' feature from the desktop, but saw some serious feature additions, including the ability to edit individual MIDI notes, a new 'Smart Strings' instrument, and the ability for iOS devices to have a virtual 'jam session' over Bluetooth.We decided to go hands-on with the new features in GarageBand to see how they pan out. In all, they compliment an mobile music-making app. Smart Strings. You can choose different styles of playing, and can turn off or on specific instruments from your string section to tailor the sound to your project.Smart Strings come in four styles—Cinematic, Pop, Romantic, and Modern. Each of these variations has four different 'autoplay' styles, and each autoplay style lets you tap with one, two, or three fingers for additional rhythmic variations. Finally, you can turn different parts of the string section on or off as well, so you can have just cello and first violin, or violins and viola.
This allows for a lot of experimentation and richness from a fairly simple set of options. Note EditorFor the strings, synths, and all other smart instruments, GarageBand now has a graphical note editor.
Simply double-tap any green MIDI track and select the 'Edit' option. In the edit mode, you can tap and drag notes to different pitches, or change the start of a note. Tap and drag the end of a note and you can extend it. Double tap a note, and you can cut, copy, delete, or paste. You can also edit a note's velocity—typically tied to loudness. A 'more' option gives a variety of contextual edits, like bending, articulation, and more, depending on the smart instrument used to record the track.
Notes can be added or deleted with simple taps, and tapping and dragging can move or extend notes.You can pinch to zoom on the note grid to drill in for finer control or zoom out for the bigger picture.While the note editor offers a lot of control, we do have one fairly major gripe—we could not find a way to edit all the notes of a chord simultaneously. It would be great if there was a way to do this, especially when editing strings or synths, which can have fairly complex chord structures that make it a chore to edit note by note.UPDATE: A reader let us know there actually is a way to select multiple notes in GarageBand's Note Editor. Simply tap and hold on an empty section of the grid, and a small translucent square will appear under your finger. Drag a bounding box around various notes to select more than one.
You can edit a group of notes' velocity and articulation, among other properties, as well as drag a group's start and end positions. More SynthsGarageBand now includes several additional synths that can be used in both Smart Keyboard or Smart Bass mode. In additional to piano, organ, electric piano, and clav, you now have four different synths to play as smart keyboards. These options are particularly well suited to pop and dance music, especially if you have a love for '80s flair. New Smart Bass synths include Exoplanet, Light Cycle, Retro Bass, and Sequence Bass.What's most interesting is that the smart basses retain a string-style input for playing. If you're used to playing a bass guitar, this style of input will likely feel more natural than using a keyboard, but you still get synth-based sounds out of it. This mixing of input style with different instrument sounds is exactly the kind of benefit MIDI has always offered—GarageBand is taking advantage of that with an interesting UI.
Devices connected to a Jam Session get a notice about which device is in control.Tap record on the control device, and all other devices will play back whatever music has already been recorded—or just a track if there's nothing there yet. All four devices can play smart instruments, or record audio tracks from an instrument or mic. Once the control device stops recording, all the tracks are collected from the other three devices for mixing and editing.We tested a quick jam session in action using an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2, and it performed flawlessly. We think this feature will really be a boon to bands demoing songs during the songwriting process, during practice, or even for recording a full album.
GarageBand tracks from iOS devices can be imported on the desktop to GarageBand or Logic for further recording, editing, or mixing, so a jam session could easily end up as part of a finished recording. We also think the feature could be a lot of fun for music-minded friends, even just for goofing off. The bass track was recorded on an iPad while a keyboard solo was added via a connected iPhone. Merging and SharingGarageBand now has a 'track merge' feature, one we suggested Apple add in our.
Merging (or bouncing) tracks is an excellent way to get around GarageBand's eight track limit. Once you have, say, a vocal track and two backup tracks, you can merge them into one single audio track. This will free up two additional tracks for recording more instruments.GarageBand also offers more options for sharing tracks. You can use iCloud to save songs, which can be synced to other iOS devices.
If you have iMovie installed, you can share a finished track to iMovie to use as background music for a video project. And you can publish songs directly to FaceBook, YouTube, or popular music sharing site SoundCloud.
We think this additional sharing support, especially for SoundCloud, shows that Apple is really beginning to understand social media. Projects created on an iPad will show up on your iPhone, for instance. A green arrow icon notes that a project needs to be updated.Finally, GarageBand now includes an improved project viewer that makes it easier to organize, sync, and share songs. Tapping and holding on a project, or hitting the edit button on the top right, will make your projects jiggle like iOS app icons. You can tap one or more projects to select them, and from there you can share, duplicate, delete, or sync to iCloud. Projects that are synced to iCloud have a small iCloud icon on them. Projects that have been updated but not synced have an arrow icon; tapping them will either upload changes to iCloud or download them, depending on which device they are edited on.
You can also drag projects to reorder them, or drag them on top of one another to create an iOS-style 'folder.' Projects can be organized into iOS-style folders ConclusionGarageBand 1.2 is a very solid update, expanding the core feature set in clever ways. Note editing and track merging make it a more complete tool for recording and mixing. And iCloud and social network sharing features give users more ways to move their music around and share it with others. We already gave GarageBand for iOS considerable esteem for its capabilities last year when it launched on the iPad, and then when it moved to the iPhone. If you haven't considered it before, and have even a passing interest in music, you should definitely.